Elite media are interested in abortion as an issue, but it is not understood as a human right but rather... more

A new website uses critical race theory as a prism to explore the range of threats to multi-racial democracy and... more

"If it bleeds, it leads" journalism lets news outlets look as though they're tracking an important event in real time.

Who pays taxes, how much, and why? We revisit two conversations about tax policy racism and taxing the rich on... more

The Philadelphia Inquirer's "A More Perfect Union" project is aimed at examining racism in US institutions, including media institutions.

This week on CounterSpin: He wanted to go to the Capitol on January 6, Donald Trump tells the Washington Post,... more

Will we keep having a Supreme Court justice declaring himself "one being" with a spouse who declares the 2020 election... more

It's a good time to recall that we had a war in this country in which many people declared that... more

Yemen is not a rhetorical device. It's a country of human beings in crisis.

Economic pressure is presented as a way of avoiding violence. But there's a problem with seeing sanctions as an alternative... more

Is what we call "higher" education an individual investment or a public good? The way news media talk about it... more

Some state-backed journalists must register as “foreign agents” with the US government. But others don't have to.

This week on CounterSpin: Black History Month has always been something of a double-edged sword: It implies that Black history... more

Understanding the Ukraine crisis involves letting go of the storyline in which the US equals benevolent democracy and Russia equals... more

Why has the system broken down? You could say media's reluctance to critically break down systems is itself a system... more

The  spate of new election-meddling laws proposed in Arizona suggests that looking away from Trumpists' "audit" is not the answer.

A judge has approved a debt restructuring deal for Puerto Rico and the deal's architects are saying it means a... more

While corporate media have largely let the water crisis in Flint go, the story isn't over, nor has justice been... more

New York Times coverage of Covid in China, with its casual Nazi analogies, reaches a level of partisan hyperbole on... more

We are a long way from understanding the full meaning of Guantánamo. But we can get the remaining detainees out.